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11.-131 , GEYSER TUDITH BASIN TIMES I 4 All the young men and women students at Black- burn college work their way to education. The plan is proving successful BY ROBERT H. MOULTON LIE 4 boy is certainly making good; nis grades are up in the nineties, he is an excellent cook, a first-class laundryman, mod can plow more ac e of land in a day than any other oy in college.\ Rather a remarkable etatem at for a college president to make concerning n college student, yet hardly more remarkable than the Institution which the student is attending—Blackburn col- lege at Carlinville, Ill. Blackburn, as a matter of fact, occupies a posi- tion unique among institutions of learning in this country. No other college, perhaps, is conducted along exactly the same lines. Its aim is to train young men to be not only scientific, but practical farmers, Inculcating In them at the same time a love of the soil, and to make of girls and young women practical housewives, who will be able to cook and sew, and to take care of a home. Also. and this Is where the unique feature comes In. It Is conducted upon a plan of self-help, whereby young men and women of the most limited means are af- forded an opportunity to avail themselves of a standard college education. The plan has been tried only a year. but during this period it has proved so successful, literally . knocking the high cost of living all to pieces. that the great problem next fall will be wbat to do with the students. The charges for the year at Blackburn have been placed at $100, ,and three hours' work per day at some sort of manual labor. This pays for furnished room with steam heat and electric light, board and tuition. The first thing one Is likely to say on hearing this is, \Ws too cheap; it can't be done.\ That was exactly what the college trustees said when, after calling Dr. William A. Hudson to the presi- dency, they listened to his revolutionary scheme for rejuvenating Blackburn. But Doctor Hudson had some convincing figures out of his past experience. He was optimistic and persistent. So finally the trustees agreed they might as well try it for a year. \It may blow us up,\ they said. \but better that than rotting down. At any rate, an ex - plosion will attract more atten- tion.\ • It was nearing the noon hour when I reached the little group of college buildings nestling In a grove of fine old elm and oak trees on the outskirts of Carlinville, and the president suggested that we would better go down and see the girls getting dinner. Here was something new. In the present age, when the average college girl spends a goodly por- tion of her time in social amenities and athletics. the idea of students preparing their own meals was decidedly novel. Yet there they were, a dozen of them, in school dresses covered with long white aprons, busily engaged In preparing a menu which had been written on a blackboard in the kitchen—a kitchen, by the way, as Immaculate as the most exacting housewife could desire. This combination of earning and learning is one of the unique features of Doctor Hudson's plan. The young women get the theory of domestic science in the classroom and then put It Into prne- tice in the kitchen. They do all the cooking, with the exception of a certain amount of help from some of the young men students. That they also do it scientifically and well was :I:tested by the meal that followed a little later. This meal con- sisted of cream of tomato soup. roast beef, baked potatoes, creamed celery, bread end butter, tapi- oca and cake, and there was 1.11 Al:lel:ince of each. I made bold to ask if dinners nlie that were served every day. \Certainly.\ replied Doctor \It's not n visitor's menu by any means. We didn't know you were coming, and if we had we would have gone along just the same.\ r - \And the cost?\ I Inquired. For answer Doctor Hudson beckoned to Miss Sparks, the capable head of the domestic science department, who not only teaches the subject but plans the various meals and figures down the cost to a quarter of a cent, not even omitting such small things as the flour in the gravy and the salt in the potatoes, and repented my query. \The cost per capita for the materials,\ said Miss Sparks, \was a fraction under eight cents.\ By way of making the lesson more Impressive, she added that the only other expense. since the stu- dents do all the cooking and serving, was for the fuel consumed in the range, an amount so small that It Could hardly be figured out as so much per here Earniuj and arrnwI Go Ila nab hiCeRE . AIL 9.1PUTAWC - 7704\ CC21'1211/Y.47 eitint... Breakfasts and suppers usually cost less than the dinners, the average for the three meals per day being 21 cents. Having no help to pay or to feed. Important Items in figuring up the cost of serving food in most colleges, has played an important part in this economical showing. The self-help plan not only cuts down expenses. hut gives the young women such a practical course In domestic science—part of the laboratory work Is to prepare each week four new dishes in sufficient quantities to feed all the people In the dining hall—that they will be benefited by it all their lives. They not only study domestic eeience, but do all of the work in their own /Neel:, the laundry work, etc., and at the end of fort . —are they will come out able, and, It is expected 'ling, to do anything and solve any problem 111.11 is likely to confront a woman in the home. The presIde• , ! led the way to a window from which was ve-.Ide a fine Tolling stretch of farm- land, part of e loch was ready for the planter. This Is the collece f:mn, consisting of 80 acres. Next fall the students will be fed from the product of that farm. Some of R. of course, will be fed to the cows, but they will produce milk for the col- lege commons; some of It will be fed to the pigs, but they will be growing Into meat all the time; and some of It will go directly to the kitchen. in this way the young men supplement the work of the young women. They produce what Is cooked, and are learning to be practical as well as theo- retical farmers. All of the farm buildings are put up by the students under the direction of the farm superin- tendent They recently completed a poultry abuse which is a model of Its kind. A huge barn and silo are soon to be started. As Doctor Hudson re- marked, those boys are likely to be much better farmers than their fathers. Another unique feature at Blackburn is that the students know as little of the cost of high Living as they do of the high cost of living. The college puts a ban on smoking. drinking, and the other evils commonly found in the peal] wertd. A boy must keep himself clean, If he belongs to the Blackburn college community. Two particularly interesting students are for- eigners, a bright-eyed little Jap and n curly-naired Persian: The Japanese student came to America to get an education, believing thet all one needs to do Is Just to come here and after that everything Is free. But he was disappointed in his dreams. lie had planned to spend three years here unit then go home to found a little school on the fun- damental principles of Christianity. A friend in Japan had said that he would furnish the money as soon as the young man finished his education. So he tried a large stete university. They were very sorry. but they had so many American boys, and then he knew nothing about our language or customs. They didn't see him- they could do ally - thing for him. Then he went to a large endowed university. and the story was the same. Filially he heard of Blackburn and went there. The t.resl- dent asked him what he could do. and he said be believed he could cook. So he was put In the kitchen and he works there three hours a day, as- sisting the young women. The other boy came all the way front Persia, with the sante exalted notion of opportunity In America. Ile hed received a little training in a hospital, but he wanted to he a real dector and go home to his people as it medical missionary. Ile spent 14 months loeliine for a ce.11ege that he could afford. A Persian doctor in Chicago directed hi Ta to Blackburn and he went right aloi.g and has made n tine record. Ile is the head of the sweep- ing force. The students at Blackburn all work—three hours a day. All pay the cane and work the same. It is a communism. They don't pay so much per hour as most colleges do, but each stu- 230Z71.1,0X5 AIWW2F'.4.1 W - ORKLYZAIJIYP221' . dent works the sante time and pays the same amount. They don't pay him; he pays the college. He does not work for himself, but for the col- lege. They believe, at Black- burn, that after young men and young women have spent four years working for the college, they will be uetter fitted for citIzensh‘p than It they had spent those years working for themselves. \There is a lot more to our plan,\ said Doctor Hudson. \than just helping young people to get throtOt college who would not otherwise get there on account of the ex- pense, but they are all side Issues. That is our main ob- ject We are looking out for the young men and the young women de other colleges have passed by, the great class of young people who are willing enough to work and hungry enough for an education to do almost anything to get it, If they only knew now to set about it. It Is not our purpose to help any student who ought to help himself, but simply to provide the means whereby he may secure an edu- cation when otherwise it would be impossible. , \We are especially interested in the young wom- en. It's a stiff proposition for a young man to go away from home to get his living and his educa- tion at the same time, but it's almost impossible for his sister. That Is why we are providing for the girls. too.\ While the fixed charge at Blackburn is $100. that. of course, does not provide for everything. It costs the college a hundred more for each student, even after buildings have been provided. This is made up out of the endowment and the help that is received from time to time front generous friends of the cause.' ROYAL MATRIMONIAL FIELD. Britain's royal house will be at a loss for royal families to marry Into when this war is conclud- ed. German royalties, even 11 the Hohenzollerns are left on the throne, can never again many or be given in marriage with kings or queens, princes or princesses of Britain's royal family. Royal families of Germany and of countries sym- pathetic with Germany are excluded from the list of candidates for wedlock with British royalties. Russia's state church is on brotherly terms with the Church of England. Religious difference would not absolutely forbid a Russo -British royal marriage. Europe is not the home of many royal houses that are 'at Once Protestant and pro -Brit- ish. War's effect on future royal marriages in Britain is more Interesting than important. Brit- ish peoples are now concerned with more awful and momentous issues than those related to the — intermarriage of royalties. British princes and princesses for all time to come will have to look elsewhere than Germany for brides and bride- grooms.—Toronto Telegram. ONE RESULT OF THE WAR. A delightful old lady of a little town in Nebras- ka was discovered one morning in the act of kill- ing a chicken. \Why. Mrs. Brown. I thought that you were afraid to kill a chicken.\ said a neighbor in sur- prise. \Yes dearle, I did useter be. but since the war broke out, I've done it right smart.\ \I don't understand you; what does the war have to do with it?\ \Well you see. it's this way: 1 useter think that bloodshed was an awful thing, but since I've been readin' about all them men -kiln's in Europe I just get a rooster by the feet, lay his head on the block and say to myself. 'Now, Sarah, 'tain't near so bad as killtte a man. Where's your nerve?' And then I just shut my eyes and whack.\— Youth's Companion. ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN. St Louis has a policewoman who 'receives a salary of $015 per month. In the Philippine islands women and girls are employed as road workers. The first requirement of a girl seeking work through the Young Women's Christian association in Los Angeles Is that she wear big shoes. It be- ing claimed that tight shoes make a bad temper. ProbahlY the only woman professional golf play. er in the world is Mrs. Gourley Dunn -Webb, the noted English player, who has come to the United States on account of the war. In Woman's Realm Designers That Are Noted for Originality Have Given Their Atten- tion to the Bathing Suit, With Results That Need Only to Be Appreciated—New \Swagger Sticks\ Greatly in Popular Favor Just at This Moment. At last the time has come when a regulation, practical swimming suit Is good to look upon. If anyone doubts that It Is possible to look pretty when emerging from a morning dip let her Contemplate the picture here. So far as her clothes are concerned, the maid may be said to have on a most becom- ing outfit., as full of style as any other of her apparel may be. The suit pictured is of black and black -and -white striped satin, and is made up of roomy bloomers of striped satin, reaching to the knees and, with a rather wide frill at the bottom, and a one-piece overdress cut in an easy - fitting Princess style. There Is a EQUIPPED may possibly need a little help or sum port. They are equal to giving assist ance in the arduous climbs she mayf encounter on Fifth avenue or Micht-I gan boulevard and show further will -I !lioness to be useful and helpful byl supporting little vanity hags of rib-, bon. These new swagger sticks are mad to match up with street and sports suits and hats. And the vanity bag, carrying first aid to beauty, must alsoi carry out the matching up in color andi style. Some of these sticks are satin -coy -I ered. but most of them are enameled. i Black and white and emerald until FOR THE MORNING SWIM. pointed panel at the front of the bodice provided with buttons In black and white composition. The hutton- holes are let in on both sides. The bodice is cut with short kimon0 sleeves lined with the striped satin, and a border of It outlines the V- shaped neck. The skirt is open at the shies in a slit that is rounded at the bottom. It Is finished with a cord cov- ered with the plain satin and reaches a little below the knees. The stockings are of black silk with pin stripes in white, and the shoes of black cloth are finished with white. When the maid 19 fully equipped for her plunge she Will don a close -fitting satin cap of black or black -and -white satin and it Is likely to be provided with a visor or something In the way white appear to be best liked, although other colors have appeared. All white, with black at the top and point, makes a beautiful stick, furnished with a vanity bag of black and white striped satin ribbon. A stick of this kind is shown in the center of the group above. At the left of the center there Is a smart model of white enamel, covered with emerald green satin and banded , with black and white. On the left of it is a black stick with white knob and point. The knob is banded with black. The stick at the right of the center, of white enamel, may be carried on the arm by the black -and -white ribbon which is run through n slit in the top. Next to It a plain black stick has n white knob and point and contrives to. POPULAR \SWAGGER STICKS.\ of a little shade for the eyes. Under It she may wear n close cap of rub- ber cloth or she may select one of the many rubberized caps or hats which the season provides. Certainly no girl really needs a \swagger stick,\ and just as certainly every girl wants one—or win as soon as she sees them. These breezy little accessories have no excuse for being In our midst at all except that they are pretty and announce that their youth- ful wearers are out for a walk and he most sedate and businesslike In ap- pea ranee. Those sticks which are furnished with vanity bags to put them in coun- tenance promise to he the most fa- vored. For, whatever else her girl' ship may consent to do without in this ungenerous world, she simply will have a vanity bag. • • 4
